The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center are on-site in Bellefonte for the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse trial. PCAR will provide insight and expertise throughout the trial in response to key statements made during courtroom proceedings.
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June 10, 2012 - 10:43pm
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Victims of sexual crimes have been violated in the most intimate, private ways and many experience intense feelings of humiliation and shame about their experiences. These feelings are frequently the reason that so many victims tell NO ONE about what has happened to them. Not family. Not friends. Not police or physicians. And certainly not strangers. In fact, only 12 percent of child sexual abuse is ever reported to the authorities (Hanson, Resnick, Saunders, Kilpatrick & Best, 1999).